[Financial Times]: Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley

Self-proclaimed stoics who denounce self-examination only prove the bankruptcy of the tech bro worldview By Jemima Kelly

https://www.ft.com/content/f9e57ed6-ad07-491c-830a-88ba92d77add?shareType=nongift

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Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley

Self-proclaimed stoics who denounce self-examination only prove the bankruptcy of the tech bro worldview

Financial Times

Marc Andreessen saying "I have absolutely no introspection" is simultaneously a "No shit dude, that was obvious when you opened your mouth the first time" moment, *and* a "Wow, that explains so much about him" moment.

Achievement unlocked.

#AchievementUnlocked #Andreessen #MarcAndreesen #introspective #introspection #NoShit #obvious #TheMoreYouKnow

Most people surely think of introspection and self-reflection as good qualities โ€” things that help prevent you from making the same mistakes over and again. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates in around 399 BCE. But tech billionaire Marc Andreessen thinks he knows better. In a podcast interview with David Senra that has caused a stir today, he said his level of introspection is zero. "Move forward. Go ... I've just I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past ... It's a problem at work and it's a problem at home," he said. "You probably know if you go back 100 years ago, it never it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective," he continued, perhaps forgetting about Socrates. Here's the full podcast interview.

https://www.davidsenra.com/episode/marc-andreessen

#MarcAndreesen #Tecnhology #Tech #Philosophy #Introspection

Marc Andreessen, a16z & Netscape

Marc Andreessen built Mosaic, Netscape, and a16z โ€” the investor who first understood software would eat the world.

@andymoose @calsnoboarder Like for real, check out the genocidal rhetoric of "#EffectiveAccelerationism" and realize these people that like #TESCREAL believe that #genocide of the entire #Humanity [except them aka. #Billionaires] is justifyable and good.

#EACC #Enshittification

Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead

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At this point, if you're a rational person, you're probably wondering why multiple US Justice Departments under at least four different presidents, seemed to be at best content to let sleeping dogs lie on the Epstein case, or at worst (as in the case of both Trump administrations and the Bush DoJ) actively granting immunity to Epstein accomplices and breaking the law to cover up for a pedophile human trafficking ring. Well, in addition to the fact that numerous people who worked with, plotted with, or "partied" with Jeff Epstein would go on to serve in both Trump regimes, the simple truth is that long after Jeff Epstein was outed as a pedophile rapist human trafficker, he had a lot of friends in very high places. And while not all of those people can be connected to child sexual assaults, and billionaire sex crime parties, I think most people would still be VERY surprised to learn about all the Lex Luthor, supervillain bullshit Epstein and his powerful friends got up to - some of which is still illegal, and some of which isn't, but probably should be.

Without leaving the current Trump DoJ's massive and illegal coverup operation, or the 10 co-conspirators in Epstein's crimes even the Trump-controlled FBI identified back in 2019 behind us, let's start to untangle a little bit of the pedophile blackmailer's shadowy world of billionaire plots, influence pedaling, and Epstein's inexplicable and inexcusable relationships with some of the most powerful people on earth, long after his crimes had become public knowledge.

This half hour Majority Report segment features Emma Vigeland, Brandon Sutton, Matt Binder, and Matt Lech sharing and providing context for two audio recordings from 2013; so, years after Epstein's first conviction and exposure as a pedophile rapist, human trafficker, and strongly suspected blackmailer. The first audio clip features former Prime Minster (and then Minister of Defense) of Israel Ehud Barak, former Clinton Treasury Secretary (and longtime economic policy powerhouse) Larry Summers, and the world's most famous pedophile blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, having a decidedly ethno-nationalist conversation about the future demographics of the apartheid state of Israel. The second audio clip features Epstein, suggesting to the soon-to-be retiring Barak that he look into obtaining a no-show advisor position with nazi, Trump-aligned, tech bro cultist billionaire Peter Thiel's (then) emerging evilcorp outfit, Palantir - you know, the same Palantir fueling the current genocide in Gaza, ICE's mass deportation agenda in America, and Trump's openly planned suppression and surveillance of anyone left of Bismarck domestically. During this second conversation, Epstein drops that Larry Summers has a similar no-show advisor position at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz; a firm founded in part by unhinged tech bro fascist supervillain and Trump donor Marc Andreessen. As you'll learn over time, the incestuous crossover between Epstein's personal circle, and folks deeply involved in getting Trump elected for their own political and economic purposes is a pretty consistent pattern in all things Epstein related.

Leaked Recording Reveals Dark Truth About Epstein And Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI3dbP5DidU

So why the fuck is the world's most infamous pedophile blackmailer chatting up the former chief economist for the World Bank (and US Treasury Secretary, and President of Harvard) about Israel's demographic difficulties in maintaining an apartheid state, and tipping off high level Israeli politicians about up and coming surveillance capital moguls like Thiel and Andreessen? That's a very good question that not one single goddamn person involved in any of the larger Epstein scandals has ever provided a coherent answer to, whatsoever.

Look, the plain truth is that these two recorded conversations are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Epstein's influence network, and the high level schemes he was involved in, or conducting, to shape politics all across the Pig Empire. From European Royalty, to American billionaire nazi cultists, Epstein's network of friends encompassed a who's who of Pig Empire powerbrokers, and that's even before we get into his weird relationship with Israeli, American, and even Russian intelligence, or his work with Steve Bannon to nurture MAGA-clone fascist movements and political parties all across Europe. Thanks to decades of willful media ignorance, I have to work to tell the stories of the pedophile trafficking ring, the coverup of Epstein's crimes, and the massive network of billionaire supervillains working through his inbox all at once. This certainly won't be the last example of Epstein plotting with state actors and international money wizards as we go along, so consider this an interesting appetizer; I promise you the main courses will blow your mind.

#Epstein #LarrySummers #EhudBarak #TMR #EpsteinFiles #Neofeudalism #Fascism #PeterThiel #MarcAndreesen #Palantir

Leaked Recording Reveals Dark Truth About Epstein And Israel

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The values of Service (or Community), Patience, Craft, and Beauty: Adam Neely on โ€œAIโ€ music generation and the refusal of AI

In his video essay "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future", bassist Adam Neely quotes Mikey Schulman, co-founder of Suno, an "AI" music-generation app, who defines his values as "Music, Impatience, Aesthetics, and Fun". After offering "Patience" as one alternative, Neely links Schulman's statements to the Italian Futurists and their

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"The end-of-year contest from Tech Wonโ€™t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back!

Here's how it works: Every day Iโ€™ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round."
https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

#Tech #Technology #Game #ElonMusk #DOGE #TimCook #PeterThiel #SamAltman #MarcAndreesen #JDVance #JeffBezos #LarryEllison #MarkZuckerberg #Fun #Humor

๐™๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ž๐™ง๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ง๐™ช๐™ข๐™ฅ
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ: ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
by #FrancescaFiorentini

"Someday Donald Trump and the movement that got him elected will be gone. And the billionaires who back him won't care. Because they have other plans.

This is the story of how deeply un-American the billionaires who buy our politicians are, from their disregard for democracy, their freak-outs over equality, or the fact that they want to secede from the United States altogether.

The #broligarchy has no regard for this country.

And now, their dystopian plans for it have come out of the shadows and into the light."

#TheBitchuationRoom #TheNerdReich #techbros #technoligarchy #technofascism #TheNetworkState #PeterThiel #MarcAndreesen #DavidSacks #JDVance #ElonMusk #BryanArmstrong #BalajiSrinivasan #DonaldTrump #CurtisYarvin #Palantir

https://youtu.be/kZituqz4Kvs

@cdarwin
And they called Liberals "snowflakes".

I have never in my life seen such a huge quivering mass of millionaires/billionaires & people with "Executive Power" WHINE so much about being "discriminated against" for being white and/or rich. #JFC #WATB Alert.

And just like how they call the Left "snowflakes" & 'violent", it's a reminder that when it comes to the Far Right: EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION. ๐Ÿ˜’
#MarcAndreesen #DEI #racist #MAGAt